Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be."
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Enigma
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery."
Emmitt Smith
American Football Player
"I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)"
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"I'm an enigma, an unknown."
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